The first stop in your quest for a better-looking Access report is Design view itself. After all, you can't change anything in the report until the report is up on the jacks in the Design view. Thankfully[more…]

Laptop computers continue to drop in price and weight, yet increase in power. Some of the latest laptop computers weigh less than three pounds and have enough memory and processing power to run a full-blown[more…]

"The record was there — right there!" The key word in that sentence is the verb, because it indicates that the record isn't there now. Precisely where the record went is a moot point because only the computer[more…]

It wasn't long ago that talking to your computer marked you as a disturbed person or a Trekkie — or both. Perceptions have changed. All the Office suite programs, including Access 2003, has the Lernout[more…]

If the data that goes into your database through tables and forms is garbage, then any output or analysis you do with queries and reports will give you garbage too. Fortunately, Access offers lots of tools[more…]

When automating an Access 2010 database application using VBA, you can get lost with a blank page on which to begin writing code. Where do you start? Here are a few simple guidelines to follow that will[more…]

Access 2010 is a great database application on its own, but it also plays well with others. You can display and retrieve data from a number of different programs. If a program supports VBA, then you can[more…]

When you use a database program like Access 2010, you can’t just start entering data. Instead, you need to create a relational database design, dividing your information into one or more tables, each made[more…]

If you like to use the keyboard as much as possible when you’re working with software, Access 2010 makes it somewhat easy to do that — somewhat because you need to use a special key in order to make the[more…]